Betrayed woman helped bust Mali's scam

Ahmedabad | Sunday | 17th June, 2018

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For Nilesh Mali, who is accused in a multi-crore billing scam, a woman Mali allegedly betrayed and raped, exposed the scam to the state commercial tax department. She also became an informant of the commercial tax department and exposed the multi-crore billing scam. AHMEDABAD: They say behind every successful man, is a woman. Apart from the rape offence, he is booked for two cases of bounced cheques.CID sources said Mali had also made various etransactions on the dummy firms to mislead the state GST department.Mali was later produced in the city metropolitan court where in he was remanded in CID custody for four days. This led to Mali’s arrest by the economic offences wing (EOW) of CID (crime).Mali was arrested from the Naroda area of the city on Friday evening by EOW officials.He was accused of floating 26 dummy firms through which he gained Rs 67.42 crore as input tax credit by showing fictitious transactions of Rs 1,346 crore.A team led by inspector M M Solanki of the EOW nabbed Mali, who was on the run for six months after a woman employee of his filed a rape case against him with Khokhra police.“The woman, who had worked for Mali for two or three years, filed a case of rape against Mali..